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News Analysis: As the rhetoric battle between Google and Apple heats up, the search giant is showing that it will fight to defend its Android mobile OS from any legal or marketing attacks from Apple. We take a look at 10 ways Google can defend its Android turf and take ...

Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 Series will lack the ability to cut, copy and paste text, similar to Apple's iPhone upon that devices release. In its place, users will be able to perform a single-tap action. The Windows Phone 7 Series will also lack other features upon its release, including Adobe ...

Sprint March 17 confirmed it would soon offer Google's Nexus One smartphone to its subscribers, but the wireless carrier did not say when it would begin offering the device or at what it would charge for the Google Android-based device. By throwing its hat into the ring, Sprint would be ...

Officials with Nortels VOIP business, which is in the process of being sold, will demonstrate their Hosted IP Communications solution at VoiceCon as it looks to grow its customer base beyond service providers and into the enterprise space. - Nortel Networks VOIP business, which is in the ...

By including the new Red Hat virtualization-layer offering, IBM is making available another option for IT systems that didn't exist previously. - Red Hat, whose CEO, Jim Whitehurst, delivered the opening keynote of this week's Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco, revealed March 16 that IBM ...

Microsoft is disputing Core Security Technologies' description of a security issue affecting Microsoft's Virtual PC software as a vulnerability. - Microsoft is disputing Core Security Technologies description of a security issue impacting Microsoft's Virtual PC software as a vulnerability. Core Security issued an advisory Tuesday ...

1987: Thousands of physicists crowd a ballroom at the New York Hilton for a hastily arranged marathon session on high-temperature superconductivity. The event generates so much excitement that it is later referred to as the “Woodstock of Physics.” Discovered in 1911, superconductivity is a phenomenon in which certain materials, at very ...

A new version of a controversial cyber-security bill was introduced in the Senate today with an emphasis on partnerships between the government and private sector. A previous draft of the bill touched off controversy last year when critics said it allowed the president to shutdown the Internet in the event ...

Hewlett-Packard, Nokia, Samsung, Apple and other OEMs will spend 13 percent more on microprocessors in 2010 than in the previous year, predicts a report from iSuppli. These numbers seem to show that semiconductor prices have stabilized, while demand for consumer and businesses electronics has increased. - Hewlett-Packard, Apple, ...

Google March 17 released Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange, a tool designed to help move e-mail, calendar and contact data from Microsoft's Exchange e-mail server to Google Apps. An unabashed bid to lure Microsoft customers from their existing Exchange installations, and to keep them from moving to Microsoft Business ...

SGI today announced immediate support of Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series (codenamed "Westmere-EP") across its entire scale-out server lineup. SGI's server solutions will boast increased performance, core density and power efficiency up to sixty percent.

After more than a month of delays, Verizon Wireless will begin upgrading its popular Motorola Droid mobile device to Version 2.1 of Google's Android operating system March 18. A Motorola spokesperson tells eWEEK the upgrade is being deployed to a small number of Verizon Wireless test users tomorrow afternoon, with ...

Microsoft plans to appeal the $105.7 million legal judgment leveled against it in a patent-infringement suit brought by VirnetX, which develops secure real-time communication links using secure domain names. VirnetX alleges that Microsoft infringed on two of its patents. Microsoft has battled a number of small IT companies in East ...

In his first public speaking engagement since Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Java creator James Gosling assures the Java faithful that Java is safe and secure in Oracle's hands. - LAS VEGAS In his first public speaking engagement since Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Java creator James Gosling assured ...

The AT T Zero Charger knows when to say when: sensing if its not connected to a phone, it can cut off the power supply from an electrical outlet. It will also work with phones from different manufacturers, ideally including Apple, Nokia and Samsung, eliminating the need for each new ...

Fujitsu is rolling out its Primergy CX1000 system for cloud computing environments. Fujitsus solution offers 38 rack servers in an enclosure, with shared power distribution and cooling components. In addition, the system is designed to conserve floor space and power. The Fujitsu offering will com-pete with similar solutions from the ...

Security researchers at RSA spotlight the cyber-infrastructure that props up malware by providing so-called bulletproof hosting to attackers. Troyak, as it turns out, is just one of five upstream providers surrounding a core of eight bulletproof networks tied to malware such as Zeus. - Researchers in EMC's ...

HTC plans on releasing its HD2 smartphone, running on the T-Mobile network, in the U.S. on March 24. Running Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional, the device is clearly meant to challenge both the Apple iPhone and Google Android devices, offering a form-factor and 4.3-inch capacitive touch-screen that makes it heavily reminiscent ...

We'd guess that this spider-bot would have a leg up over your vacuum in a cage fight. A student from the University of Arizona has created an Intel Atom processor-based spider robot that is able to self-adjust to move straight forward ...

Googles Nexus One has joined the Apple iPhone on the AT T network. This may boost sales if the attention of AT T customers can possibly be diverted from the iPhone. - Google has a new version of the Nexus One, and unlike the original version which ...